Re: two tables--similar information

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Rick.Henkel@firstdatacorp.com <Rick.Henkel@firstdatacorp.com>
>One of my writers has two tables that contain similar information. One
>table is 40 pages long; the other, 80. Two columns on the tables should
>match, but over many updates, that's no longer the case.
>The writer wants a way to update one table and have the other table
>automatically match. The only ways I can think of to do this are to use the
>table sorting feature or create cross-references between the two.

Someone suggested using text insets from another document containing
the table, but that would only work if the complete table is identical
in the two places. You seem to indicate that only two COLUMNS are
identical, so you cannot use text insets in that case (to my knowledge).

Unless you can organize the tables and the information in some other
way (split the table, convert columns to rows, or some such), I think
that cross-references is the easiest solution. However, they will
show up as links in HTML and PDF... Beware that table-sorting has a
bug that sometimes deletes all markers included in the text cells!

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